Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2006-10-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
We fabricated epitaxial thin films of hexagonal DyMnO3, which otherwise form in a bulk perovskite structure, via deposition on Pt(111)//Al2O3 (0001) and YSZ(111) substrates: each of which has in-plane hexagonal symmetry. The polarization hysteresis loop demonstrated the existence of ferroelectricity in our hexagonal DyMnO3 films at least below 70 K. The observed 2.2 uC/cm^2 remnant polarization at 25 K corresponded to a polarization enhancement by a factor of 10 compared to that of the bulk orthorhombic DyMnO3. Interestingly, this system showed an antiferroelectric-like feature in its hysteresis loop. Our hexagonal DyMnO3 films showed an antiferromagnetic Neel temperature around 60 K and a spin reorientation transition around 40 K. We also found a clear hysteresis in the temperature dependence of the magnetization, which was measured after zero-field-cooling and field-cooling. This hysteresis may well have been of spin glass origin, which was likely to arise from the geometric frustration of antiferromagnetically-coupled Mn spins with an edge-sharing triangular lattice.
Jang K. H.
Jo Yookyung
Jung Moon-Hee
Lee Daehee
Lee Jung-Hee
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